[ken5050]

There was a story in today's NY Times hat we are currently exploring arming the Pretadors with Stingers so that they can defend themselves......curious timing, eh?.....perhaps a field test?

[blam]

"There was a story in today's NY Times hat we are currently exploring arming the Pretadors with Stingers."

I like that Idea. I expect shortly to see some JDAMS hitting the airbase where the Iraqi jet is housed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's good to see we are probing Iraq's air defense system with Predators, and curious that this appears to be an air-to-air intercept by Iraq.

[MrPeanut]

This could be like the Cuban missle crises and the drone was reconning something hot.

[Walkingfeather]

I was just wondering the same thing. I wonder if the racks for the hellfire missiles would work for stingers. I wonder if we can monitor approaching enemy aircraft from satalite and then fire the stingers remotely and have them seek out the aircraft without having to add onboard radar and defense mechanisims. If we can see them through other means would we need to put it all on the preditor if the stinger is fire and forget? Any thoughts?